Infants' Early Ability to Segment the Conversational Speech Signal Predicts Later Language Development: A Retrospective Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Newman, Rochelle; Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Jusczyk, Ann Marie; Jusczyk, Peter W.; Dow, Kathy Ayala
Titel	Infants' Early Ability to Segment the Conversational Speech Signal Predicts Later Language Development: A Retrospective Analysis
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 42 (2006) 4, S.643-655 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Infants; Language Acquisition; Language Processing; Vocabulary; Thinking Skills; Preschool Children; Followup Studies; Age Differences; Psycholinguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachverarbeitung; Wortschatz; Denkfähigkeit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	Two studies examined relationships between infants' early speech processing performance and later language and cognitive outcomes. Study 1 found that performance on speech segmentation tasks before 12 months of age related to expressive vocabulary at 24 months. However, performance on other tasks was not related to 2-year vocabulary. Study 2 assessed linguistic and cognitive skills at 4-6 years of age for children who had participated in segmentation studies as infants. Children who had been able to segment words from fluent speech scored higher on language measures, but not general IQ, as preschoolers. Results suggest that speech segmentation ability is an important prerequisite for successful language development, and they offer potential for developing measures to detect language impairment at an earlier age. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10